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(b.Martin Edwards was born at Knutsford, Cheshire in 1955 and educated in Northwich and at Balliol College, Oxford University, taking a first class honours degree in law. He trained as a solicitor in Leeds and moved to Liverpool on qualifying in 1980. He published his first legal article at the age of 25 and his first book, about legal aspects of buying a business computer at 27, becoming a partner in the firm of Mace and Jones in 1984. He is married to Helena with two children (Jonathan and Catherine) and lives in Lymm. Martin is a member of the Murder Squad (see the Links section) collective of crime writers and is chairman of the nominations sub-committee for the CWA Diamond Dagger (crime writing's most prestigious award). In 2007 he was appointed the Archivist of the Crime Writers Association.
Genres: Mystery, Historical Mystery
New Books
Series
Harry Devlin
1. All the Lonely People (1991)
2. Suspicious Minds (1992)
3. I Remember You (1993)
4. Yesterday's Papers (1994)
5. Eve of Destruction (1996)
6. The Devil in Disguise (1998)
7. First Cut Is the Deepest (1999)
8. Waterloo Sunset (2008)
1. All the Lonely People (1991)
2. Suspicious Minds (1992)
3. I Remember You (1993)
4. Yesterday's Papers (1994)
5. Eve of Destruction (1996)
6. The Devil in Disguise (1998)
7. First Cut Is the Deepest (1999)
8. Waterloo Sunset (2008)
Lake District Cold-Case Mysteries
1. The Coffin Trail (2004)
2. The Cipher Garden (2005)
3. The Arsenic Labyrinth (2007)
4. The Serpent Pool (2010)
5. The Hanging Wood (2011)
6. The Frozen Shroud (2013)
7. The Dungeon House (2015)
8. The Crooked Shore (2021)
aka The Girl They All Forgot
1. The Coffin Trail (2004)
2. The Cipher Garden (2005)
3. The Arsenic Labyrinth (2007)
4. The Serpent Pool (2010)
5. The Hanging Wood (2011)
6. The Frozen Shroud (2013)
7. The Dungeon House (2015)
8. The Crooked Shore (2021)
aka The Girl They All Forgot
Rachel Savernake Golden Age Mysteries
1. Gallows Court (2018)
2. Mortmain Hall (2020)
3. Blackstone Fell (2022)
aka The Puzzle of Blackstone Lodge
4. Sepulchre Street (2023)
1. Gallows Court (2018)
2. Mortmain Hall (2020)
3. Blackstone Fell (2022)
aka The Puzzle of Blackstone Lodge
4. Sepulchre Street (2023)
Novels
Omnibus
British Library Crime Classics (2015) (with Forrester Andrew, John Bude, Christopher Caudwell, Freeman Wills Crofts, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, J Jefferson Farjeon, Charles Kingston and Alan Melville)
Collections
Where Do You Find Your Ideas? (2001)
The New Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes (2014)
Resist (2019) (with Julia Bell, Bidisha, SJ Bradley, Jude Brown, Lucy Caldwell, Steve Chambers, Uschi Gatward, Luan Goldie, Gaia Holmes, Nikita Lalwani, Zoe Lambert, Irfan Master, Kamila Shamsie and Eley Wil)
The Out-Islands (poems) (2021)
The New Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes (2014)
Resist (2019) (with Julia Bell, Bidisha, SJ Bradley, Jude Brown, Lucy Caldwell, Steve Chambers, Uschi Gatward, Luan Goldie, Gaia Holmes, Nikita Lalwani, Zoe Lambert, Irfan Master, Kamila Shamsie and Eley Wil)
The Out-Islands (poems) (2021)
Series contributed to
Anthology series
Anthologies edited
Northern Blood 2 (1995)
Northern Blood 3 (1998)
Missing Persons (1999)
Scenes of Crime: CWA Anthology 2000 (2000)
Murder Squad (2001)
Crime in the City (2002)
Green for Danger (2003)
Mysterious Pleasures (2003)
Crime on the Move (2004)
I.D. Crimes of Identity (2006)
M.O. Crimes of Practice (2008) (with Robert Barnard, Martyn Bedford, Ann Cleeves, Kate Ellis, Sarah Hilary and Christine Poulson)
Original Sins (2011)
Guilty Consciences (2011)
Deadly Pleasures (2013)
Guilty Parties (2014)
Capital Crimes (2015)
Resorting to Murder (2015)
Silent Nights (2015)
Murder at the Manor (2016)
Serpents in Eden (2016)
Crimson Snow (2016)
Motives for Murder (2016)
Miraculous Mysteries (2017)
Continental Crimes (2017)
The Long Arm of the Law (2017)
Mystery Tour (2017)
Foreign Bodies (2017)
Blood on the Tracks (2018)
Ten Year Stretch (2018)
The Christmas Card Crime (2018)
Deep Waters (2019)
The Measure of Malice (2019)
Settling Scores (2020)
Vintage Crime (2020)
A Surprise for Christmas (2020)
Guilty Creatures (2021)
Many Deadly Returns (2021)
Murder by the Book (2021)
Music of the Night (2022)
The Edinburgh Mystery (2022)
Final Acts (2022)
Welsh Mysteries (2023)
Northern Blood 3 (1998)
Missing Persons (1999)
Scenes of Crime: CWA Anthology 2000 (2000)
Murder Squad (2001)
Crime in the City (2002)
Green for Danger (2003)
Mysterious Pleasures (2003)
Crime on the Move (2004)
I.D. Crimes of Identity (2006)
M.O. Crimes of Practice (2008) (with Robert Barnard, Martyn Bedford, Ann Cleeves, Kate Ellis, Sarah Hilary and Christine Poulson)
Original Sins (2011)
Guilty Consciences (2011)
Deadly Pleasures (2013)
Guilty Parties (2014)
Capital Crimes (2015)
Resorting to Murder (2015)
Silent Nights (2015)
Murder at the Manor (2016)
Serpents in Eden (2016)
Crimson Snow (2016)
Motives for Murder (2016)
Miraculous Mysteries (2017)
Continental Crimes (2017)
The Long Arm of the Law (2017)
Mystery Tour (2017)
Foreign Bodies (2017)
Blood on the Tracks (2018)
Ten Year Stretch (2018)
The Christmas Card Crime (2018)
Deep Waters (2019)
The Measure of Malice (2019)
Settling Scores (2020)
Vintage Crime (2020)
A Surprise for Christmas (2020)
Guilty Creatures (2021)
Many Deadly Returns (2021)
Murder by the Book (2021)
Music of the Night (2022)
The Edinburgh Mystery (2022)
Final Acts (2022)
Welsh Mysteries (2023)
Non fiction
Catching Killers (2003)
The Golden Age of Murder (2015)
Truly Criminal (2015)
The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books (2017)
Howdunit! (2020)
The Life of Crime (2022)
The Golden Age of Murder (2015)
Truly Criminal (2015)
The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books (2017)
Howdunit! (2020)
The Life of Crime (2022)
Anthologies containing stories by Martin Edwards
Short stories
| Natural Causes (1999) |
Martin Edwards recommends
Great British Fictional Detectives (2008)
Russell James
"The eclectic coverage is one of the great merits of this appealing book. The illustrations are a real plus, and there are plenty of lists of selected sidekicks, tv detectives and so on... A fascinating book to dip into, crammed with information and lavishly illustrated."
A High Mortality of Doves (2016)
(Albert Lincoln, book 1)
Kate Ellis
"Kate Ellis has established a deserved reputation for ingenious whodunit plots [and] in A High Mortality of Doves, she breaks new ground. Fascinating, with a characteristically clever twist."
The Wrong Boy (2018)
Cathy Ace
"Cathy Ace’s skill at evoking place is a stand-out highlight of The Wrong Boy, a neatly wrought story which combines a mystery…with a study of tangled relationships within a close-knit community…"
The Poison Garden (2019)
Alex Marwood
"Suspenseful and distinctive, The Poison Garden is a powerful and character-driven study of obsession."
The Long Call (2019)
(Detective Matthew Venn, book 1)
Ann Cleeves
"Ann Cleeves’ new series gets off to a terrific start with The Long Call – her native Devon is wonderfully evoked, and Matthew Venn is a very appealing new detective. Another sure-fire hit."
Midnight at Malabar House (2020)
(Malabar House, book 1)
Vaseem Khan
"Midnight at Malabar House is an exciting departure for Vaseem Khan, a history-mystery with a marvellous new detective duo. The blend of classic tropes - including a maverick cop, a mysterious cipher, and a victim who gave plenty of people reasons to commit murder - and a wonderfully evoked setting in post-Partition India makes for a highly entertaining and informative read."
The Marlow Murder Club (2021)
(Marlow Murder Club, book 1)
Robert Thorogood
"The Marlow Murder Club is a hugely entertaining mystery, and Judith Potts, the Marple of Marlow, is a wonderful new detective character."
The Bloodless Boy (2021)
(Hunt and Hooke, book 1)
Robert J Lloyd
"The Bloodless Boy is a gripping and beautifully written history-mystery which brims with atmosphere and menace."
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